FSNAU In Focus
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FSNAU Post Gu 2015 Food Security and Nutrition Technical Report
October 2, 2015Read More ....
Latest findings from a joint countrywide seasonal assessment by Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and partners, indicate that 855 000 people across Somalia will be in Crisis and Emergency (IPC Phases 3 and 4) through December 2015. This figure represents a 17 percent increase over the estimate for February to June 2015. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) constitute 68 percent of the total number of people in in Crisis and Emergency (IPC Phases 3 and 4), followed by rural (25 percent) and urban (7 percent) populations. Approximately 2.3 million additional people are...
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FSNAU-FEWS NET Technical Release, August 31, 2015
August 31, 2015Read More ....
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Updated Somalia Livelihood Zones Map, April 2015
June 4, 2015Read More ....
Livelihoods zoning is a kind of economic geography, dividing a country’s population into relatively homogenous areas defined by common characteristics of the economy of households. Using this approach, Somalia was divided into a number of livelihood zones by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU). The most recent Somalia Livelihood Zone map developed by FSNAU and in use since 2009 contained 33 Livelihoods Zones (32 rural plus 1 urban). To date, these livelihood zones have served as the basis for and levels at which seasonal assessments food security and nutrition...
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FSNAU Releases Post Deyr 2014/15 Nutrition Analysis Technical Series Report
March 5, 2015Read More ....
The prevalence of acute malnutrition among children under five years is a sensitive and objective crisis indicator, reflecting the wider situation of emergency affected populations, including their food security, livelihoods, public health and social environment. The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) conducted 41 anthropometric and retrospective mortality surveys from October to December 2014 (post-Deyr 2014/15) covering 28 996 children (6-59 months) from 17 790 households across most regions and...
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FSNAU Releases Post Deyr 2014/15 Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Technical Series Report
March 5, 2015Read More ....
Key Findings
Despite improved food security following the...
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FSNAU-FEWS NET Technical Release, January 29, 2015
January 29, 2015Read More ....
Over 730,000 people across Somalia face acute food insecurity despite improvements in some areas
Nearly 203,000 children are acutely malnourished
January 29, 2015, Nairobi/Washington – Despite improved food security following the Deyr harvest, improved livestock conditions, and mostly stable staple food prices, a large number of people across Somalia will be acutely food insecure through June 2015. Many children remain acutely...
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FSNAU preliminary outlook for the first half of 2015 indicates only a slight improvement in the overall food security situation in Somalia
December 18, 2014Read More ....
Based on the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit’s (FSNAU) preliminary outlook, acute food insecurity is expected to persist in most parts of Somalia although slight improvements are expected, predominantly in pastoral and agropastoral areas of the country. Based on the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) acute food insecurity severity scale, a modest decline in the overall number of people in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) is expected in the first half of 2015. Most of the population in urban and rural livelihoods of...
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Over one million people in Somalia face acute food insecurity as food crisis worsens
September 2, 2014Read More ....
A 20 percent increase since January 2014
September 2, 2014, Nairobi/Washington – The gradual recovery and gains made since the end of the famine in 2012 are being lost as poor rains, conflict, trade disruptions and reduced...
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FSNAU releases the quarterly Food Security and Nutrition Brief - Focus on Post Gu Season Early Warning
June 25, 2014Read More ....
Based on ongoing monitoring activities in addition to the results of rapid preliminary Gu (April-June) season field assessment carried out in June 2014, the food security situation is projected to deteriorate in Somalia in the post-Gu period (July-December 2014). Within the context of limited humanitarian assistance, the major factors contributing to the deterioration of the food security situation include below average harvest prospects as a result of late and erratic Gu rains, rising food prices, armed conflict and associated displacements as well as disruptions in farming and...
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Global Food Security Journal Special Issue on the Somalia Famine of 2011-2012 (available online until 25 August 2014)
May 27, 2014Read More ....
In the context of the ongoing discussion on the current food security crisis in Somalia and it's likely trajectory, it would be important to highlight the causes and manifestations of the 2011 famine and the lessons learned from it in terms of preventing future famines in Somalia. These are documented in the Special Edition of the Global Food Security Journal which Elsevier, the publisher, has now made freely available on their website until 25 August 2014. The link is: Global Food Security Journal Special...
